Adriaan Pauw

Adriaan Pauw (1 November 1585-21 February 1653) was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1631 to 1636 and from 1651 to 1653.

Biography
Adriaan Pauw was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1585, the son of the Mayor of Amsterdam, and the brother of landowner Michael Reyniersz Pauw. In 1620, Pauw bought the town of Heemsteede and became its lord, and he served as Grand Pensionary from 1631 to 1636 and from 1651 to 1653. He was instrumental in the peace negotiations with Spain during the Thirty Years' War, and he tried to stop a war with England in 1652. He died in 1653.